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9. NY has fewer people dying from firearms than Tennesee

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Relative to Tennesee the state of New York has over three times as many people and yet there are more people in Tennesee each year that die from gunshot. The 12/7/2011 National Vital Statistics Reports Final Data for 2008 demonstrates that 963 people died from gunfire in all of NY while 985 people died from gunshots in Tennesee.
With that population disparity that means the rate per 100,000 of people dying from guns is 322% higher in Tennesee than in NY. (15.8 v 4.9). Nationally the rate is 10.4.

“The 12/7/2011 National Vital Statistics Reports Final Data for 2008”. It is available at; http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_10.pdf

National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 59, No. 10 Page 138 Table 19